Tag: Organizing
The UAW Needs a Strategy for the Future of Manufacturing
The corporate reversal on electric vehicle production is restructuring the US auto
industry and creating worker insecurity faster than the UAW can fight back. The long-standing
culture of collaboration between the union and corporations has been devastating to labor’s
power. Will the UAW reverse its decline by stepping up to fight over the future of manufacturing,
or continue to take a back seat to capital? Labor needs new strategies that take on
corporations on a class basis, focus fights on worker control alongside bread-and-butter issues,
and set a course for collectively controlled manufacturing that serves the working class.
“We Are the Ones We’ve Been Waiting For”
Shane Burley interviews former editor of the Black Panther Newspaper JoNina Abron-Ervin about her time in the Party and radical organizing today.
¡Ningún Ser Humano Es Ilegal! Resistiendo los Ataques Contra los Migrantes de Trump
Frente al resurgimiento del Trumpismo, un organizador de Vermont que lucha por los derechos de la comunidad migrante nos recuerda que la verdadera justicia nace de la solidaridad y la organización desde abajo.
Tenant Organizing is Producing and Defending Territory
Expanding on the notion that transforming social relationships transforms space, Zara Cadoux examines Abolish Rent as both an organizing tool and a work of public geography.
We Keep Each Other Safe and Housed
Maga Miranda interviews the Rent Brigade’s Chelsea Kirk about tenant fightback against rent gouging in the wake of the Los Angeles wildfires.
After the Fire
Promise Li argues that the mutual aid response to the LA fires shows both the carceral city’s abandonment of its communities and the possibility of changing politics as usual.
Forms of Radical Democracy
Will Clark goes beyond the scenes of repression to outline some of the liberatory possibilities presented by the encampment as political form.
From Vietnam to Palestine
Richard Lai, Lynn Ta, and Promise Li discuss solidarity between Palestinians and the Vietnamese diaspora and the challenge of situating local organization in the context of global imperialism.
Higher-Education Bargaining with the “New” UAW
Aaron Berman reflects on using accreditation as leverage and the impact of the new UAW leadership on the Academic Student Workers’ strike at the New School.
Abolition and Tenant Power in Chinatown
Tenant organizers in LA write about the power of abolitionist politics in the fight against displacement in Chinatown.